Paypal Scam Scam letter

[Echo_of_thunder 1]

I just opened up my E mail to find this letter from paypal. Kinda funny I do not even have an account. But thought that I would pass this on for you all that do have one..

Dear Customer,

It has come to our attention that a total charge of $67.33 (in fees) was initially made to your paypal account, which we regret.
The refund department has therefore been authorized to make a refund of all deduction not properly authorized.
We will need you to fill the following refund form attached with this letter to have this amount of money refunded to your debit card.

We are sorry for this inconvenience.


Sincerely,
PayPal




You are receiving this email notification because this email address is listed as the administrative contact email for your PayPal account.


Please do not reply to this email. This mailbox is not monitored and you will not receive a response.


PayPal Email ID PP074

[TheDisturbedOne 1]

Do you know about 419 Baiter One of my favorite sites!

[pasten 0]

Its just a spam. Notice the style of the email, it doesn't look like an official mail from paypal and at the first place why would they send one when you dont have an account. The senders email would be from some other website. And then it is asking you to fill the form through a link which would probably lead to a phishing web page which would make you enter all your real details of paypal if you had.Not long ago, I recieved an email from somebody claiming to be from hotmail staff. It gave a link, which was cloned hotmail page requesting to... guess what? To give away all the real "legitimate" details of mines including real address and login details to them. And the reason it gave was that, hotmail was now collecting real info to reduce and fight spam.? And the most interesting stuff about it was that, the email account would be terminated if I did not give the details within two days.

[kittycatlover763 0]

i agree with pastern,it could be a phising scam,and at all a spam as well. there was once a fake youtube scam. a friend of mines account on myspace got hacked,and when they get hacked or somebody gets hacked it obvious but i clicked on the link she supposively gave me,and it directed me to a videoon"yuotube" it said your computer isnt updated to the latest version of java,and i said"thats bull! i updated my comp this morning,ths s a scam." of course im not stupid when it comes to computers so they arent spreading there virus to me. so thats no paypal to let you know. i get fake viagra emails all the time jsut cause im 21.

[puneye 0]

I suffer many times like this problem with paypal while I haven't a paypal account. I think it is just scam.Just delete it.

Edited March 1, 2009 by puneye (see edit history)

[Quatrux 4]

I used to get such emails too, they really look quite as from Paypal, but it's just phising scam to get your money, I think they succeeded to get some money out of it.

[-Sky- 0]

Pfft. It's them scamming fools. They want you to fall for the trick, signup to what ever link they gave you and scam your *bottom*. And the ones where it says "You are missing out, people have made a total of $142 this week!" emails. They are scams too, so I just delete them. Theres not much point in reading scam mail since it's not even useful. Pathetic if you ask me.

[Ash-Bash 0]

Meh I never read anything from paypal. I just always logon to there website and look at the news on there thats how I can trust them and if I would like to ask something I can just contact them and then I 100% know its them

[Digitalidad 0]

Well. This kind of e-mails are very common nowadays, however they're very easy to spot indeed. Just look at the link they ask you to click on and hover your mouse pointer over it, your mail client will show you the URL it's pointing you to. If the URL is not in the presumed sender's domain (https://www.paypal.com/de/webapps/mpp/home or something very similar in this case), most probably it's a trap.I receive tons of e-mails like that everyday from Paypal, Spanish banks I don't even know, eBay, etc., etc. Sometimes just for fun I follow the links and go to the forms they ask you to fill with your user and password and instead of that I just write some dirty words they deserve However, it's better not to click on the links at all.

[buxgoddess 1]

there are too many scam mails going on in the net and even show that they originated from the desired sites. It is spoofing where the sender email is assumably one of the original authentic sender. But a closer detailed look reveals that the mail is a fake and spam generated from a non-intended site a mal-activity.

[gummybear 0]

I've run into a similar situation before. I had made an account on tribe.net and i received a message from someone who claimed to be from Africa and would share with me his great fortune on the condition that i provide him with my billing information. No thanks. As sketchy as these things are i find it funny that anyone would think I'd actually fall for something like that, hah! Like sure, let me just hand over my checking/savings account information to you right now..... how about no.

Edited March 14, 2009 by gummybear (see edit history)

[vhortex 1]

If you can view the email headers, you can check where the email was actually sent from. This kind of email keeps on landing on my mailbox and they are all phishing mails with a template of an exact paypal email but there was an extra link on the mail itself that you will click. Paypal will never ask you about a refund instead it will sent a notice that you have an item that needs an action. ******************Checking for spoof mailViewing the email headers gives me the full view of where this email was coming from on my case, they come mostly from hotmail. Not that I am blaming hotmail but it was hotmail mail server that sent the mails and allows the spoofing of the mail address. A few of them are third party hosting accounts mostly on trial access. This gives me relief for ignoring my hotmail account as they seem to lack a more robust security model for sensitive data. For webmail services, Gmail or Googlemail have this option to view the full headers. Yahoo mail also have this feature but it seems to be absent from Ymail which is the same email service as Yahoo which is a little strange (this may be case to case basis). The last time I tried this with hotmail, hotmail is asking me for a fee to see the full headers but that was 3 years ago and things may have changed.Viewing the email header for Gmail requires clicking "view transcript". This text change depending on the theme being used and the version of Googlemail running. Both will open a text dump of the email as it was logged by the server including the mesage ID from the senders mail service and Googlemail's message ID. It also includes the IP address of the sender and the IP address of the receiving Googlemail server.